Family
Kale Chicken Soup
The house we’re staying in has a cast iron pot with lid, so I got to bake a chicken, and came up with a lot of juice: chop fronds and hard parts of kale. Separate tender parts of kale leaves, Read more…
Linguistics
Reformed Doormat
Joel and I had the pleasure of staying in a house with this doormat greeting us as we first walked in the doorː My immediate thought was that it was a relief to be staying with people who were so Read more…
Congo + Culture
Good News from the DRC
Rather than waiting for some other reason to use this title, I’ll go with the end of the most recent Ebola outbreak in DR Congo: [contentcards url=”http://www.who.int/emergencies/ebola-DRC-2017/en/” target=”_blank”]
Congo + Culture
“Urgent Appeal” by African Leaders for DRC Peace
When looking up the latest on DRC elections forcast, I found the following post from yesterday on the Kofi Annan foundation’s website: [contentcards url=”http://www.kofiannanfoundation.org/supporting-democracy-and-elections-with-integrity/appeal-democratic-transition-drc/” target=”_blank”] This is in the context where questions of the possibility of an election are being Read more…
Congo + Culture
Making and Maintaining Connections
I have found myself saying a number of times over the years, “I didn’t get into missions to do ___.” Fill in the blank with supervising other people, managing money, raising money, helping people get along with one another, keep Read more…
Family
Treebeard and Quickbeam
Joel just finished reading the Lord of the Rings, and today he decided to put his love of fantasy into Lego. He had found kits online for $200+, but decided he could do it himself. Anyway, here he is, proud Read more…
Linguistics
Theoretical Musings
Throughout most of my career as a linguist, I have enjoyed doing descriptive work. Practically, that means I describe what is found in languages, rather than prescribing what should be in a given language (as a teacher might). But descriptive Read more…
Church
Why We Should Forgive the Unrepentant
I was asked this question in our home group recently, after a larger discussion on church discipline, and forgiving the repentant. I found a large number of documents online with various opinions. I read through the first nine that showed Read more…
Linguistics
The Function of Tone in Ndaka
In an earlier post I mentioned work I was doing to show the importance of tone in the Bantu D30 languages. Here I’d like to go through the conjugation of one verb in one language, to show how tone works, Read more…
Congo + Culture
Numbers Lie
I was thinking this morning about the proverb “numbers don’t lie”, and how taken for granted it is, when I realized that there are at least two problems with it. First, it reflects our own individualism and efficiency driven culture, Read more…